Into the Darkness

Lyra

Couples - Kensuke, Takouji, Kouichi/Izumi

Rating - PG-13

"Untainted Memories"

AN - Sorry for how long it took me to get this one out. Just been slightly writer's blocked and I've been working on a few new stories as well. One which, should be making its apperance fairly soon. Well enjoy!

Ken rolled a rock between his fingers as he was stared at by a piercing pair of blue grey eyes.

"What happened out there?" Kouji asked somewhat calmly.

Ken sighed, "Everyone might as well sit back and relax, this might take a while."


Another Time, Another Place

Ichijouji, Ken sighed as he looked outside. It had been snowing for the better part of the day. Not that
he overly minded the snow or anything. In fact he was quite fond of it, except for when he had somewhere to be and that snow was preventing him from leaving his household.

He paced silently through the empty household. His parents were off visiting a relative and wormmon
was currently residing at Daisuke's house.

He looked at the clock on the wall, noon, exactly when he was supposed to be picking up wormmon from his sleepover. If there wasn't anything he hated more than being late, it was not arriving at all. He sighed once more and resorted to laying down on the couch watching the snow fall.

A sudden pounding on the door immediately brought Ken to an upright position. He sleepily rubbed his eyes as he glanced at the clock once more, six o'clock.

'Must of fell asleep,' he thought wearily.

The pounding once again resounded throughout the household and he dragged himself off the couch.

"Coming, Coming..." he muttered sleepily.

He opened the door to see a sopping wet Daisuke holding a small backpack to his chest to shield it from the weather conditions.

"Daisuke, what on earth? Get in here you're drenched!"

Daisuke grinned sheepishly and stepped into the apartment as Ken ran to get some towels.

Ken frowned as he threw a towel to Daisuke.

"I suppose you need clothes too, unless some are coming out of the backpack," Ken muttered as he turne to head towards his room.

"No clothes, just digimon, " Daisuke replied.

"I'll take the fact that you can joke as a good thing. Now here's some clothes, go change before you catch pneumonia if you haven't already," stated Ken.

"Hai Hai, Okaa-san, " muttered Daisuke as he headed towards the bathroom.

Ken shook his head as some very distinct sneezes were heard and then went to let the digimon out of the backpack.

"Ken-chan!" screamed wormmon as he proceeded to bounce out of the backpack and into his partner's arms.

Ken smiled at his partner's antics, "How about some cocoa. I'm sure you're cold and with Daisuke's current condition, I'm sure he could use some too."

"Hey! Don't forget me!" yelled chibimon as he wriggled out of the now empty backpack.

"Of course not," Ken set wormmon down and proceeded into the kitchen.

He slowly got to work on getting the materials out for cocoa and shook his head every so often as sneezes could be heard.

"Owie! Dai-chan meanie!" yelled a slightly aggrivated chibimon.

A laugh was heard, and small mumurings drifted across Ken's ears. He smiled slightly as he headed out into the kitchen with the cocoa.

"Ever so graceful Motomiya?"

Daisuke stuck his tongue out as he settled onto the couch and snagged a cup of cocoa.

Ken sat down on the other side of the couch and turned to his friend, "Now what on earth encouraged you to come out in this weather?"

Daisuke simply shrugged, "I knew you were all locked up in this apartment with no one for company. Its no fun to watch the snow fall by yourself."

Ken blinked slightly at his friend's answer. It was unlike Daisuke to be so serious so early in the conversation.

Daisuke smiled once more, "Anything good on TV?"

Ken smiled as he turned the television off. He pulled the blanket down from the top of the couch to cover the boy now sleeping on his lap. Daisuke had fallen asleep not too long after they had simply settled on a old soccer match.

Ken ran his hand through his jogress partner's hair and smiled.

"Oy! Ken, hurry up!" yelled Daisuke as he ran outside.

It had ceased snowing and the world was now the angel's territory of pristine white. The snow had been heavy enough to even cease the busy traffic of Tokyo if only for a few hours and Daisuke intended to enjoy it as much as possible. Daisuke grinned and he slowly spun around in a circle.

Ken shook his head and Daisuke started to spin faster until he was nearly in the middle of the street.He slowly pushed through the doors to gaze at the scenery around him. The world was a goregous white wonderland.

"Daisuke get out of the road."

Daisuke stopped spinning and wobbled a bit then laughed.

"Ken, your such a mother hen. Nothing's gonna happen, the traffics all stopped remember?" replied Daisuke.

Ken frowned and then shook his head. He slowly went to sit in the snow and fell back gently on the ground. He waved his arms and legs up and down in an age old rythmn creating snow angels in the process.

As he lay there the smell of snow mingling with that of his wet hair, he listened the sounds surrounding the area. He could hear other kids slowly coming out into the winter wonderland. The birds were chirping ever so quietly in the snow. In the distance he could hear a few people shoveling and even a vehicle or two starting up. He frowned slightly at this. People really shouldn't be trying to drive on these roads.

Suddenly a snow ball landed just above his head. He grinned and twisted over onto his stomach.

"You have bad aim, Motomiya," Ken blinked as he realized Daisuke was no where in sight.

"Daisuke?" he questioned as he slowly stood up, brushing off the snow in the process.

Ken scanned the area and frowned. He turned towards the doorway and then back only to find
himself with a face full of snow. A soft giggling could be heard from behind the car across the street. Ken grinned and looked across the street before crossing. He slowly snuck around the back of the car to find absolutely nothing.

Ken's face scunched up in confusion and then shock as another snowball hit him in the back of
head.

"You're getting slow, Ichijouji," stated Daisuke confidently from the other side of the car.

Ken quickly flung a fist full of the snow and Daisuke stumbled backwards in a attempt to avoid
the snow. Being his ever so graceful self, Daisuke fell flat on his face. Ken smirked slightly, while Daisuke frowned in full force.

Daisuke brushed his self off and slowly sat up. He quickly set to work on making another
snow ball.

"Daisuke! Get out of the road!"

Daisuke frowned at Ken preparing on giving him another lecture about being a mother hen when
two things happened simultaneously. His ears picked up the sound of screeching tires, while he suddenly found himself shoved and sliding across the ice covered street.

Daisuke still in shock expecting to see a horrific experience, blinked at what he saw.

Ken was standing in the middle of the road staring at his hands, white as the proverbial ghost and the car?

Well the car, was continuing on its way down the street.

"Ken? What just happened?"

"I think.. I just went through a civic," stammered Ken.

"You can go through things! That's so cool!" yelled Tomoki.

"That's just odd, you can really go through things?" asked Junpei.

Ken rose slowly from his seat and proceeded to stick his hand on the cave wall then partially
through it.

"I can go through basically everything. Going through living things is a different story entirely
though. It sorta gets tiring, not to mention I get flashes of emotions and thoughts. Its just a nasty
situation that way, so I tend to avoid people," Ken replied.

"So what else can Daisuke do?" asked Izumi.

Ken proceeded to sit back down, "As far as I know just the lightening. I think he has the hardest
time controlling his powers though because of his fickle emotions. Which explains what happened earlier."

"So let me get this straight? He attempted to barbecue us because he's emotional?" asked Junpei.

Ken shook his head, "Not exactly. Our powers haven't been there our whole lives, so we have learned to adapt to them. Daisuke has no memories past his appearance here a few days ago, so in turn he would have no knowledge that he has these powers, much less know how to control them."

"Are there others like you two?" asked Kouichi.

Ken nodded, "Within our age range there is five others with power. Miyako, who has the ability to heal most wounds. Hikari, who has the ability to disappear entirely. Iori, who can turn almost anything into a winter wonderland. Takeru, who is capable of flying on occasions, with or without wings. Finally there's Wallace, who can control the plants."

"Have you ever found out what causes this to happen?" asked Izumi.

"A friend of ours, Koushirou, has a theory that it has something to do with our adventures in the digital world. However he has yet to come up with a complete theory on it all. This has only been going on for a month or so, and has definately led to some interesting incidents," stated Ken.

Kouji leaned back against the rock wall, "So far we have people turning into digimon without a detector, a guy who cango through walls, and another one who could fry us at any moment. For some reason I don't think we're any closer to figuring out what's going on here than before."

Everyone else looked at the floor at this statement as the winds swirled around outside.

"Well since we're not going anywhere, we might as well get some rest. Hopefully the storm will have died down by morning and we can find some solutions," stated Izumi.

Daisuke yawned slowly as he turned over onto his stomach. He blinked slowly as his eyes adjusted to the dim light in the cave. He could slowly make out the others in the darkness.

'We must of made it through that storm,' he thought tiredly.

He frowned slightly as a image drifted back to his mind.

'Why was Ken's hair violet? I have the feeling another odd thing happened. Just wonderful.'

Another small whisper of a sound brought Daisuke out of his musings. He searched the room for the sound, and found it be the object of his current train of thought.

Ken was lying next to Daisuke on his side. His face was scrunched in confusion and anger, as a nightmare drifted through his thoughts.

"Mmm... can't have.... you can't have him... suke... amai..." he mumbled incoherently.

Daisuke blinked as the nickname brought a blush to his cheeks. He softly reached out to stroke the other boy's hair and smiled when Ken's features calmed slightly. He then grinned sheepishly as he snuggled closer to the bluenette and inhaled his scent.

Things were definately a bit on the wierd side, but for some reason. At the moment, it really didn't matter.

I know, I promised lovely Takouji moments and it was totally a Kensuke chapter. Don't worry, things are gonna start to get exciting soon. As feelings will definatley come to a climax along with the introduction of our lovely villain. (Yes, there is one in this story believe it or not ;;)

I would say this story is probaly around 3-4 chapters from finish. Most likely a sequel will follow eventually along with a small prelude of sorts. However the prelude will be pure Kensuke. However my next story is in the works and the first chapter is around 3/4 done. Then it'll be off to the beta reader, then for some touch ups. I'm hoping that will be out around the beginning of January. I'm actually very much looking forward to that particular series, because its going to include lots of illustrations, a total Alternate Reality setting, and well just plain exciting stuff.

Next Chapter - Matters of a Kaleidoscope Heart

Chatay.